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MACHINE FOR'GUTTING CIGAR WRAPPBRS. No. 315,408;

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIC OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN, OF NEW YORK, is. Y., ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ssieu MENTS, TO WILLIAM EGGERT, TRUSTEE, OF sAME PLACE.

MACHINE FOR CUTTING ClGAR-WRAPPERS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 315,408, dated April 7, 1885.

Application filed July 10, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, OsoAE HAMMERSTEIN, of New York city, county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Machine for Cutting Cigar-Wrappers, of which the following is a specification.

Figure 1 is a top view, partly in section, of my improved machine for cutting cigar-wrappers. Fig. 2 is a vertical longitudinal section of the same on the plane of the line 0 c, Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical cross-section of the same on the line 70, Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow 1, Fig. 1.

This invention relates to a cigar machine of the kind described in Letters Patent No. 261,849, of August 1, 1882, and has for its object to adapt the machine which is described in said patent to the cutting of cigar-wrappers.

The invention consists, first, in combining with a perforated suction-plate and a suction pipe, a cutting-blade, so that the wrapper, while the leaf is held by suction or air pressme to said plate, may be cut out of the leaf.

The invention also consists in combining with the continuous cutting-blade, which has the general outline of the wrapper, an inner cutter for making a curved incision into the head of the wrapper, thereby improving its condition.

In the drawings, A represents a continuous endless cutting-blade, of the form of a cigarwrapper.

B is a perforated diaphragm or plate, which is fixed in the blade A, slightly below the cutting-edge of the same. One manner of securing the'plate B is by posts a a, which rest on cross-bars b b, that extend crosswise through the lower part of the space bounded by said cutting-blade; but the plate B may be secured in place by solder or other means.

At the angle (1, which is formed in the blade A for producing the offset for the head of the wrapper, is secured to the blade A an additional curved blade, 0, which extends into the space bounded by the continuous blade A,and

serves to make a curvilinear incision into the head of the wrapper, permitting it to be coiled more readily and thoroughly around the point of the cigar.

table, D, or other support, over a pipe, E, through which air can be drawn by a suitable fan or pump or suction deviceof ordinary kind. I

Whenever a leaf is placed on the apparatus 5 5 suction is caused to take place and the leaf thereby drawn against the plate B, thereby avoiding wrinkles in the wrapper. -While the leaf is thus held by suction, a roller, F, is

passed over the leaf, pressing it against theefi o cutting-edges of the blades A and O, which are all on the same plane, thereby cutting out a wrapper. Instead of a roller, a malletmay" be tapped upon the leaf, so as to cause the blades to cut out the wrapper.

ily taken off. i I

It is evident that the apparatus will also be fully operative when the extra blade 0 is 70 omitted.

when I describe the blade A as endless, I

mean practically endless. There may be a non cutting portion at thetail end of the blade,as

it is not always essential that the leaf at that place should be cut; I

I claim 1. Thecontinuouscutting-bladeA,combined with the perforated plate B and with the suction-pipe E, substantially as described, for 8o creating suction in the space boundedby the blade A and plate B, as and for the purpose.

specified. p 2. The wrapper-shaped cutter A, having the curved inner cutter, G, substantially as OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN.

Witnesses:

GUSTAVE SOHNEPPE, WILLY G. E. SoHUL'rz.

In use the apparatus shown is placed on a 5 Whenthecut- 65 ting has been completed, suction is stopped, whereupon the finished wrapper can be read- I 

